Leon Wyczółkowski

Polish painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Born in the family of glass merchant Mateusz Wyczółkowski and Antonina Falińska in the village of Huta Miastkowska near Garwolin in the kingdom of Poland (1852). Studied under Antoni Kamieński and Rafał Hadziewicz at the Drawing Class in Warsaw (1869–71), Wojciech Gerson (1872–73), Alexander von Wagner at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Munich (1875–77) and Jan Matejko at the Szkoła Sztuk Pięknych in Krakow (1877–79). Passed through periods of interest in Realism (1870s), Impressionism (1880s–first half of 1890s) and Symbolism (second half of 1890s). Founding member of Sztuka (1897). Professor of the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych in Krakow (1895–1911) and Warsaw (1934–36). Died of pneumonia in Warsaw and buried in the village of Wtelno in north-central Poland (1936).